It is a truth universally acknowledged that an indie hacker in possession of a widget must be in want of a business model...
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-noble-path
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-noble-path
I don’t disagree with any of this…what I am beyond tired of is every idea being worthy of “monetization.” But what really chaps my aged hide is that every one of these geniuses is like 22 or 23 years old. What experience do they have? What pain points for any industry could they possibly have experienced? What accumulated understanding of anything do they have at 23 or 23? I want to see some 45 year old with 20 years of experience across the world as it has changed over the past 20 years, when these founders were still experimenting with solid food.
Gah.
/flame off
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I had this conversation on a panel once. A 15 year old entrepreneur asked what advice I had for him as a teenager starting a business…and nobody liked that my response was “go work for someone else.”